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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-05-04

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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-05-04
Neasnter of IEood md RnrL-

MEASURER OF WOOD AND BARK re-
1fI spcctfully announce myself a candidate for
reelection to the office of Measurer of Wood and
Bark, subject to the decision of the primary cleo
tion. Tap27-tpol WESLEY MAKELEY.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-05-04
AUCTION SALES.
By 4. T. Lucas, Auctioneer.
REAL ESTATE

COMMISSIONERS SALE OF VALUABLE
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06

knocked the bottom out of it by exempt
ing old soldiers and sailors from the
necessity of competitive examination.
They assail the Democratic Admins
tration for 1.-The array of shameful dis
missals from Office in face of the re-
cent showing that So per cent. of the
Federal offices in Massachusetts, are
still in the hands of the Republican
partisans who monopolized them all fol
twenty-five years.
To cap the climax of their hypocrisy
they repeat the recommendation 81
former conventions that prohibitory
amendment to the Constitution be sub.
mitted to the people. And this in view
of the notorious fact that Legislature:
overwhelmingly Republican have re
peatedly refused to submit such al
amendment. The politicians of many
States have ladled out flood for fools
in their resolutions, but the Republi
cans of Massachusetts have surpassed
them all. World.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06
Enjoy Life.

What truly beautiful world we
live in! Nature gives us grandeur of
mountains, glens and oceans, and
thousands of means of enjoyment. We
can desire no better when in perfect
health; but how often do the majority
of people feel like giving it up disheart-
ened, discouraged and worn out with
disease, when there is no occasion for
this feeling, as every sufferer can
easily obtain satisfactory proof, that
Green's August Flower will make
them free from disease as when born.
Dyspepsia and liver complaint are the
direct causes of seventy-fve per cent.
of such maladies as Biliousness, Indi-
gestiOn, Sick Headache, COstiveness,
Nervous PrOstration, Dizziness of the
Head, PalpitatiOn of the Heart, and
other distressing symptoms. Three
doses of August Flower will prove its
wonderful effect. Sample bottles, 10
cents. Try it.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06

1.-The growth of the pension list, re-
marks an exchange, land its cost in
the past twenty-five years has been
something wonderful. In 1862 it had
for the first time in many years fallen
to less than million dollars. In 1868
it was over a million. In 1864 it was
over four million. In 1861 amounted
to fifteen million. In 1867 it passed
twenty-five millions. In 1870 the sum
paid was over twenty-eight millions.
In 1871 it was thirty-four millions, in
1880 fifty-six millions, in 1881 sixty-one
millions, in 1885 sixty-three millions
and last year over seventy-four millions.
And it seems pretty hard to tell when
it is going to stop its growth, for the
list of claimants goes on increasing all
the time. Last year there were over
1900 new claims for pensions filled,
and over $1,000 allowed. Never before
have there been so many allowed in a
year, and never but twice has the
number of claims 6led been so great.
Never has the amount of money paid
out been so great in a single year.
Never has the number of pensions on
the roll been so large"
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06

The n. Y. Star says: 1.-The excell-
ent nominations made by the State
convention, and the sound and jul
dicious platform adopted, no less than
the spirit of unity and the proceed
ings at Saratoga, gave assurance OF
an emphatic endorsement Of the methods
of the Democratic national and State
administrations.
The New York Tribune told the
truth yesterday when it said: 1.-The
Republican party must make 1up its
mind that both in the city and State it
will have thoroughly and united De
mocracy to meet this fall" Never
was the Democracy of New York more
thoroughly united or better equipped
for effective campaign work. The
magnitude of the issues of the election
are well understood. The state is to
say whether the country shall go for
ward in the path of Democratic reform
or relapse into those dangerous abuses
which the people repudiated and re-
buked in 1884,
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06

The call for an honest administration
Of the affairs of the public domain is
one which the Democratic party has
for years reiterated. 1t is naturally
gratifying to the ancient organization
to find that the Democratic administra-
ton has entered heart and soul into
the crusade for justice to homestead
settlers, and has already rescued from
the grasp of despoiling corporations
nearly one hundred millions of acres
of pnblic lands and thrown them open
to actual settlement, so that the peoples
heritage may be enjoyed by every one
who has the industry and enterprise tC
locate home upon it.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06
No Need of Dependent Pensions.

The main argument in support of
the bill for pensioning dependent ex-
soldiers is drawn from the wrong and
the shame of permitting defenders of
the Union to become inmates of poor
houses.
Inquiries addressed to Grand Army
posts have brought out the fact that
comparatively very few of such exist.
1t is not right that there should be any.
And it appears from the report of the
Commissioner of Pensions that there is
mo reason why any man who is sup
ported by public charity, necessarily,
may not at once have his claim adJudi-
Gated and settled" The case of every
man who is an inmate of poorhouSe
comes precisely under the provisions of
| a circular issued by the Bureau direct
ing that immediate action be taken for
special and urgent reasons. If an in
mate of apoorhouse is unable to furnish
his own proofs, the Special Examination
Division of the Pension Office stands
ready to assist him, without charge,
and the claim will be advanced for con-
sideration, and allowed and paid at
once if found to be just.
Every honorably discharged soldier of
the war wholly or partially disabled in
the service, or as the result of it, should
be cared for by the government. If
there are not soldiers homes enough
to provide for such without sending
them to the poorhouse, more should be
built and adequately sustained. But
to pension every old soldier who is will
ing to swear that he is unable wholly to
support himself is to put premium
upon pauperism and to faint the roll of
honor. World.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06
The Presidents Trip.

When James Monroe was President
of the United States, he made tour of
the country, and was everywhere wei
coined by the people with the greatest
evidences of pleasure and rejoicing.
Since then, succeeding Presidents have
not made it custom to ''Swing around
the CIRCLE but Grover Cleveland has
great many good old fashioned ways
about him, and is doing much the same
as Monroe did in more ways than one.
1t is perfectly proper that Mr.. Cleve-
land should see the great nation over
which he presides, especially since he
has never before had an opportunity of
so doing. He will enjoy sight OF the
boundless Vest, where his administra-
ton has restored millions of acres of
the public lands back to the people-the
rightful owners. 1t will do him good
to breath the balmy air of the sunny
South, and to look upon the new life
there everywhere springing into pros
porous industry, and to accept the
greeting which will there be extended
to him by people now loyal and true
to an inseparable Union. 1t will please
the President to see with his own eyes,
the restoration of business activity and
prosperity, which is permeating all The
channels of commerce from the faith
and confidence which his wise conduct
as Chief Magistrate to the nation has
inspired.
There will be those mean enough and
unpatriotic enough to misconstrue the
Presidents motives. But Mr.. Cleve-
land has way of going ahead when he
is sure he is right.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06

4 Southern editor talks to his delin-
iquent subscribers: Wagons cannot
run without wheels, boats without
steam, bull frogs jump without legs, or
newspapers carried on everlastingly
without money, any more than dog
can wag his tail when he has none.
Our subscribers are all good, but what
good does a mans good do when it don't
do any good? We have no doubt that
every one thinks they have all paid ex-
cept him, and as we are clever fellow
and his is little matter, it will make
no difference.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06

The railroads Of Kansas have adopt
ed Il policy destined to make them
friends among the local granger con-
stituences. They have made tariff
discriminating in favor of the people
of the state and they engage to trans
port at reduced rates grain and other
food products from locality where
there is abundance to those where there
is scarcity. This is so extraordinary
that it deserves more than passing no.
tice. The Kansas railroads have earned
a large credit.-ChicagO Mail.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06
An Abandoned Railroad.

The unusual sight of railroad being
stripped of its track and abandoned
has been witnessed in Ohio in the case
of the Cincinnati, Columbus & Hooking
Valley, locally known as the grasshop-
per road. Its twenty-five miles of
track. although lying in the heart of
one of the richest states in the Union,
long ago proved Improbable, and after
lying idle for some time, the rails and
ties were sold by the owner, a Chicago
capitalist, for what they would bring,
and have been taken up and carried
away. Although the road bed remains,
it does not verify the assertion some
times made that a railway once opened
can never stop its operation.-C h,cago
Times.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06

The Republicans have used q great
deal of powder in trying to strengthen
themselves with the farmers, but they
are not likely to get an adequate return.
The same amount of work would have
been more effective in cities where
larger masses of voters could have been
reached. 1t is an anomaly that the
majority OF the farmers of this state
have supported in the past the party
that has put taxes on their clothes.
their food, and their agricultural i'm
PIGMENTS, for the sake of enriching the
manufacturers. Their natural ally
would be the Democracy, the aim of
which is to decrease their expenses of
living and widen their market by the
promotion of foreign trade.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06
Pecksniffian Platitudes.

The Republicans of Massachusetts
in convention assembled tumble theil
phylacteries and with the long-faced
assumption of virtue peculiar to theil
State intone through their noses theil
annual thanksgiving that they are not
as other men are, especially the Demo
Gratis.
They favor "a protective tariff in
disregard of the fact that the existing
tariff is 80 per cent. higher than the
tariff enected for revenue and protec.
ton after the outbreak of the war, is
within two points of the highest aver
age reached during the war, and is pro-
ducing 500, 100000 surplus revenue
every year.
They favor Liberal appropriations
for all sorts of extrayagent and extra
constitutional schemes, and if the sur
plus still continues would reccomend a
reduction of the taxes on whiskey in
order that monopoly-fosterin war
taxes may be perpetuated on the cloth
ing, food and fuel of the people. Thus
does love of the Almighty Dollar" tn
umph over the canting. morality of
these political Pharisees!
They pledge themselves to maintain
the existing Civil-Service Law OF the
Commonwealth" after they have
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06
SHERIFF'S SALE.

TTNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER
~ of sale, issued by the Clerk of the District
Court OF Dickinson County, state OF Kansas, in
cause pending therein, wherein Samuel H. Eye
is plaintiff, land j. l.. Liggett, Elizabeth H. Liggett,
j. II. Brady and A. Il. Dewotf are defendants,
will on
Monday, November Z, 4. D. 1887.
at the front door Of the court house, in the city OF
Abilene, county of Dickinson, state OF Kansas,
at 10 O'Clock A NJ. or said day, sell to the highest
bidder for cash, the following real estate to-wit
The northwest quarter Of section No. four ~ in
township No. fifteen (15) south Orange No. three
(3) east OF the sixth principal meridian in Dick
inson county state OF Kansas
The said real estate will be sold purSu-
ant to the Judgment of the court in said cause re-
cited In said order of sale.
Witness my hand this Sd day Of october, A.
d. 1887 j. j. MILLER,
7-5t Sheriff of Dickinson county, Kas.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06

When at Oak View Mrs. Cleveland
attends the Church Of st. Adams, a
modest little wooden structure on the
Ienallytown road. The Rev. A. j..
Falls, the rectOr-for the church is
Episcopalian-has been much pleased
at the regularity with which the Presi-
dents wife has attended his services.
Last Sunday was probably the last
time this season that Mrs. Cleveland
will worship in the quiet country
church. When she returns from the
West in October, she will settle down
at the White House and go to DR.. Sun
derland's church on Sunday mornings.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06

Just before the election in 1884, the
New York Sun printed this line at the
head of the editorial page: 1--WE think
Grover Cleveland is beaten Now the
Sun observes: ITO nominate Grover
cleveland would be to enter upon a
campaign of assured and prearranged
defeat" The Sun is probably as wide
of the mark now as it was in 1884.
Grover Cleveland is today stronger
man before the country than he was
three years ago, and his reelection
seems to be as inevitable as his renom-
ination. Pretty much everybody recog-
nlzes this except the hebetudinous
crank of the San, and his reputation as
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06

The following from an exchange is
true as a holy writ: ''As a rule the
the very rich men are not those who
build up community and create
booms. A single business man full
of life and snap enterprise, who is not
afraid to talk and talk sense, and
knows how to advertise is worth any
dozen very rich men, who usually take
advantage of other peoples booming
to increase their own values.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06

The Cincinnati Times Star says: The
manner in which the campaign has
been conducted SO far by the Republi-
can state executive committee calls for
anything but commentator. 1t is
impossible not to see that party inter
csts are suffering seriously from mis-
management. To longer ignore this pat
ent fact would be to show an ineXcuS-
able disregard for the Republican cause.
The TEnleS-Star is a Republican paper
and evidently sees a cloud much larger
than mans hand.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06

Judge Parkinson, of the Fort Scott
Sugar Works, sums up the matter as
follows: I'VE shall build factories and
make Kansas a greater sugar producing
state than in Louisiana. The Louisi-
ana planter must have i've dollars per
ton for his cane to make a profit. This
with their beet factories, yield from
40 to $50 pounds of sugar, with good
season, and they have about four good
seasons out of five. Our cane can be pro-
duced proitably for $3.50 per ton and a
less expense than that required to work
the Louisiana cane. We can get from
100 to $50 pounds of equally as good
sugar every year. l have said nothing
of our seed that yields about twenty
bushels to the acre, nor of our increased
syrup product over that Of the Louisi-
ana cane"
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06

1t is announced that Atlanta.
Georgia, is preparing to give President
Cleveland such a reception next month
as no man has enjoyed on American
soil since Lafayette was here in 1924.
The arrangements are in charge of that
gifted journalist, Henry VI. Grady. 1t
may be mentioned incidental that Mr.,
Grady is a candidate for Vice resident
on the ticket with Mr.. Cleveland. If
he doesn't ransack Georgia for the fat
test 'possum and the sweetest sweet
potatoes for the President, then human
isn't what it used to be before the war
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06

The Republicans of Massachusetts
held their state convention at Boston
on the 2Sth inst. Among other things
they say in their platform: 'We be-
lieye in protective tariff. recognizing
the benefits of it to our country by Civ
ing our people more varied industry,
constant work and better remunera-
ton" In this resolution nothing is
said about one hundred thousand men
being out of employment, and another
hundred thousand working for starva-
ton wages, under a high protective
tariff. In the second resolution they
tell US how to get rid of the surplus;
here it is: 1--WE favor liberal appro-
priations for reconstructing our navy,
for internal improvements, and for
proper national aid to education"
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06

There are eleven papers published in
Dickinson county; two advocate re-
ductioD of National taxation. On this
question that effects every consumers
pocket, Republican papers are as silent
as the grave. S1O,OOO,O 900 are collected
from the people beyond the needs of
the Government every month. Ten
times that amount is paid to eastern
manufacturers beyond a reasonable
profit every month.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06

San Francisco and New York twenty
years ago at a close calculation were
thirty days apart. On the completion
of the Union and Central Pacific rail.
roads the distance was reduced to eight
days, and upon the completion of Other
and competing railroads, the distance
was reduced to six days. One would
have supposed that that was about as
close as it was possible to get the two
points but the other day the startling
announcement came from the Pacific
coast that a through express from Sar
Diego, Cal, to New York in four days
would soon be an established thing,
There is no telling what the wild West
will do neXt.-Er.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06

Governor Richardson, of South Caro-
lima, stopped ct Washington on his
way home from Philadelphia. He had
never visited the Capitol before. He
spoke highly of the hospitality of Phil
adelphia, but said that he was con-
stantly greeted with the question;
"What did the Governor Of North
Carolina say to you just now" Where
ever he went he was annoyed with the
inquiry, until in despair he seriously
thought of buying chestnut bell.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06

Mr.. Parkinson, manager of the Fort
Scott sugar works, has made a PROPOSE
ton to the people of Hutchinson to 10
cate 100000 sugar factory at that
place. The stock was guaranteed in an
hour, and the probabilities are that the
amount will be doubled. The building
will be built this fail and the machinery
be put in by spring.-OSage City Free
Press.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06

Proof of the death of Robert Harvey
Wilson. a soldier in the late war IS
wanted. He is supposed to have died
at Marysville few years ago. His
children are destitute and if proof OF
his death can be obtained they Will get
his pension. Deceased has brother
somewhere in Kansas, Daniel Wilson.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06

Miss Lindo an English woman is the
founder of the first home for broken
down horses. The poorer classes can
procure, on moderate terms, rest and
treatment for horses that are failing
from overwork, or incidental causes.
The owners are provided with temper
ary substitutes. 1t is also an asylum
for superanunated favorites.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06

1t looks like throwing away money
to expend large sums on battle ships,
at the same time approve the new dyna-
mite throwing gun, that will knock the
largest ship to flinders in no time.
Great Britain better stop talking about
a few fish in Canadian waters, if she
wants ship left on the seas.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06

One of the monuments that Franklin
erected to his memory, was the speech
made advocating the adoption of the
Constitution that was necessary to Sc
cure a more perfect Union. When he
announced that although it doubtless
had many imperfections, he would
support it, he set an example in state
men observation-disclosures for want of
which the new Constitution would
probably have persisted.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06

There is a newspaper out in Colorado
whose proprietor, editor and assistant
are the only inhabitnEts of the place in
which it is published. 1t claims to
have the largest circulation in town,
but you can't put much dependence on
what western papers say about circula-
tion.-B,trlinQtOn Free Press.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06

Mr.. John Bright does not want to
see the English members of Parliment
paid because he thinks it will make
political life trade. Parliamentary life
is d good zeal of trade now, but it is
a trade that only rich men can follow,
except in rare instances. The payment
of salaries to members would introduce
into English public life class of able
men hitherto completely barred out.
1t would also drive away from West
minister the empty headed young Tory
squires who amuse themselves now 10y
batting the Irish members. N. Y. Star.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06

Senator Ingalls, ought TO empty the
Walls of his wrath upon those constiu-
ents of his at Fort Scott, Kan, who are
insisting upon separate schools for the
white and the black children OF that
town. Or is his vitrolish speech re-
served for those prosecutions of the
colored race only which occur in the
South.-N. Y. World.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06

The excellent thing in the New York
Democratic State platform is its declar-
alton against the surplus and in favor
of An immediate reduction of taxes up
on the necessities of the people and the
essentials of manufactures. This goes
directly to the point, and states the
position of the party without fear OF
evasion,
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06

An exchange pays the following
compliment to the Democratic old sol
der: at is the Democratic soldier, of
all human beings, who may be proud to
stand up and be counted. He is not
scarce. AS one of ,ur exchanges has
recently observed, Missouri sent II $50
more men into the Union army than
Iowa did. Missouri cast only 27,02S
votes for Lincoln, but sent sc, $50 men
to the Union army. COnceding that
two-thirds of the Iowa soldiers were
Republican, and that two-thirds of
those who voted for Lincoln in Missouri
enlisted in the Union army, we have a
total of about $1,000 Republican SOL
diers from those states, while the same
state furnished $4,000 Democratic SOL
diers to the Union army. These fig
ures are rather interesting A good
many more such can be furnished.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-06
For Sale.

Having decided to leave Abilene,
will sell my household goods consisting
OF furniture, carpets, stoves, dishes,
etc., very cheap. Call and see the
goods and learn prices, at third door
east of Buckeye avenue on Eighth ST.
132-eOd-lw NEIL SINCLAIR.